Although his publishers classify Fall From Grace as part of Greeley's general fiction, it is actually thematically linked to two other novels in which the character Margaret Mary Ward Keenan appears. These novels also contain a plot or subplot concerning battered or sexually abused women.

Maggie is the protagonist of The Search for Maggie Ward (1991), a novel which outlines her troubled first marriage and her abuse by her first husband. In The Cardinal Virtues (1990), Maggie makes a brief appearance as the mother of one of the main characters, Fr. Jamie Keenan, the new curate of St. Finian's Parish who assists the aging and somewhat cynical pastor, Fr.

Laurence O'Toole McAuliffe (a character who also makes a major appearance in the novel An Occasion of Sin, 1991) to regain his ideals and commitment to parish life. One of the subplots of An Occasion of Sin concerns a woman...